11-letter words containing r, i, v, e, c
- diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- diverticuli — Misspelling of diverticula.
- divorcement — divorce; separation.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
- eigenvector — A vector that when operated on by a given operator gives a scalar multiple of itself.
- equivocator — Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- eviscerated — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- eviscerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eviscerate.
- eviscerator — Someone who eviscerates, whether physically or metaphorically.
- excursively — In an excursive manner.
- extractives — Plural form of extractive.
- fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
- foodservice — The business of providing food and related services.
- frederick v — called the Winter King. 1596–1632, elector of the Palatinate (1610–23) and king of Bohemia (1619–20). He led the revolt of Bohemian Protestants at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War
- ftp archive — archive site
- give credit — allow delayed payment
- gravimetric — of or relating to measurement by weight.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- hyperactive — unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.
- in recovery — If someone is in recovery, they are being given a course of treatment to help them recover from something such as a drug habit or mental illness.
- incarvillea — any plant of the genus Incarvillea, native to China, of which some species are grown as garden or greenhouse plants for their large usually carmine-coloured trumpet-shaped flowers, esp I. delavayi: family Bignoniaceae
- inscriptive — of, relating to, or of the nature of an inscription.
- insectivora — the order comprising the insectivores.
- insectivore — an insectivorous animal or plant.
- instructive — serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
- interactive — acting one upon or with the other.
- internecive — internecine, or mutually destructive or ruinous
- intervallic — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- irreceptive — not receptive
- irrelevance — the quality or condition of being irrelevant.
- irrelevancy — irrelevance.
- irreverence — the quality of being irreverent; lack of reverence or respect.
- irrevocable — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- irrevocably — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- larch river — a river in N Quebec, Canada, flowing NE to the Caniapiscau River. 270 miles (434 km) long.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- line vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- lip service — insincere expression of friendship, admiration, support, etc.; service by words only: He paid only lip service to the dictator.
- live center — Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- live centre — a conically pointed rod mounted in the headstock of a lathe that locates and turns with the workpiece
- locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
- loupcervier — the Canada lynx.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.